Biography

Born in Athens in 1974. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH, 2017), a Diploma in Architecture from AUTH (2000), and a degree in Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2014). She also holds a postgraduate MAS in Landscape Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), specializing in landscape design at the urban and city-planning scale, as a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holder in 2005–2006.

As a design consultant and advisor, she works with interdisciplinary teams:

• From 2018 to 2025, as lead consultant, she prepared the preliminary and detailed implementation studies for the “Entrance and Exit Study for the Archaeological Site of the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Sounion,” in collaboration with archaeologists Dr E. Andrikou and E. Assimakou, and surveyor E. Portelanou, all of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens. During preparation of the implementation study, she consulted O. Chatzopoulou, architect and civil engineer.
• From 2004 to 2007, she worked on a study of public urban space along the Arapitsa River in Naousa [lead consultants: O. Chatzopoulou and P. Skarlatos; collaborating architects: L. Tiktapanidou and associates; advisors: D. Chatzisavva and A. Kouzoupi]. The project received an award at the 2010 SADAS-PEA Architectural Awards.
• From 2012 to 2015, she served as landscape advisor to a large interdisciplinary team, coordinated by O. Kloutsinioti, for the revision of the Spatial Planning Framework for Regional Development in the Region of Crete.

Her work has received recognition in international and national design competitions:

• Seventh Prize in the International Urban Planning Competition for the development of the mountain areas of the Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• One of three equal awards in the competition for the National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF) in Larissa, in collaboration with a large team [representatives of the participating offices: S. Adamakis, A. Kouzoupi, H. Bouraza, S. Moundrichas].
• She is a founding member, together with landscape sculptor Nella Golanda, of the Sculpted Architectural Landscapes: Golanda + Kouzoupi team. Their projects “The Disused Dionysos Marble Quarries: Open-Air Museum of Historic Quarrying” and “Attiki Odos, Western Hymettus Ring Road: Between the Road and the Natural Landscape” were selected as finalists for the 2000 Barcelona International Biennial of Landscape Architecture Award and the 2004 European Prize for Urban Public Space, respectively. Among other distinctions, Sculpted Architectural Landscapes received commendations in the DOMES Awards in 2011 and 2013 for the completed Glyfada Central Square [in collaboration with the Municipality of Glyfada’s Technical Services] and for the signage study of the infrastructure palimpsest in the area of the Ancient Quarry Complex of Kleonai, respectively.

Her architectural work (built projects and studies), theoretical work, and visual art have been published in Greek and international periodicals [Architectural Issues, DOMES, Topos, Paysage-Topscape] and in edited volumes; presented at international and national conferences; and exhibited at events in Greece and abroad, including the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale; the Barcelona International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2009; SANA in 2003 and 2006; St. Tropez in 2007; and the 5th, 6th, and 7th Biennales of Young Greek Architects.

At the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, she taught the courses “Special Composition I” and “Special Composition II” for seven consecutive semesters between 2007 and 2010. She has supervised and co-supervised diploma and research projects, two of which received GRA Awards. In 2014, she taught an elective course (an intensive workshop) for final-year students at the Department of Architecture. During the winter semesters of 2018–2019 and 2019–2020, she taught Architectural Design V–VIIa and the theory course “Landscape Theories.” From the 2020–2021 to the 2022–2023 academic years, she taught Architectural Design III–Va in the winter semester and “Landscape Theories” in the spring semester, while continuing to advise and supervise diploma and research projects. Since 2023–2024, she has also taught the required course “Nature, Landscape and Urban Ecosystems” and, as a member of a four-person teaching team, “Introduction to Architecture II” in the spring semester.

Research Interests

• In her doctoral dissertation, she deconstructed the nature–culture dichotomy through the lens of Homer’s Odyssey and developed a theoretical approach to the reciprocal relationship between experience and mapping through Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptual figure of the “orchid and the wasp.”
• Her postdoctoral research (2019–2022, National Technical University of Athens; IKY scholarship) examined the zone of the parallel Long Walls as an infrastructure palimpsest at the urban scale, a linear urban archaeological and historical industrial landscape, and a functional double link between Athens and Piraeus.

Academic Interests

Architectural Design.